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Joshua 21

Jos. 21:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And out of the half
machatsiyth (Hebrew #4276)
a halving or the middle
KJV usage: half (so much), mid(-day).
Pronounce: makh-ats-eeth'
Origin: from 2673
tribe
matteh (Hebrew #4294)
from 5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread)
KJV usage: rod, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: mat-teh'
Origin: or (feminine) mattah {mat-taw'}
of Manasseh
Mnashsheh (Hebrew #4519)
causing to forget; Menashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Manasseh.
Pronounce: men-ash-sheh'
Origin: from 5382
, Tanach
Ta`anak (Hebrew #8590)
of uncertain derivation; Taanak or Tanak, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Taanach, Tanach.
Pronounce: tah-an-awk'
Origin: or Tanak {tah-nawk'}
with her suburbs
migrash (Hebrew #4054)
from 1644; a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture); hence, the area around a building, or the margin of the sea
KJV usage: cast out, suburb.
Pronounce: mig-rawsh'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine (Ezek. 27:28) migrashah {mig-raw-shaw'}
, and Gath-rimmon
Gath-Rimmown (Hebrew #1667)
wine-press of (the) pomegranate; Gath-Rimmon, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Gath-rimmon.
Pronounce: gath-rim-mone'
Origin: from 1660 and 7416
with her suburbs
migrash (Hebrew #4054)
from 1644; a suburb (i.e. open country whither flocks are driven from pasture); hence, the area around a building, or the margin of the sea
KJV usage: cast out, suburb.
Pronounce: mig-rawsh'
Origin: also (in plural) feminine (Ezek. 27:28) migrashah {mig-raw-shaw'}
; two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
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Gath-rimmon,
Manasseh,
Tanach,
Tribe

Cross References

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Aner and Bileam are mentioned in Chronicles, instead of Tanach and Gath-rimmon.
(1 Ch 6:70.)
Either the cities had at this time different names, or afterwards their names were changed; or the Levites, being by some means dispossessed of the cities first assigned them, received others from their brethren.
A careful examination of the marginal references will discover other variations of this kind, which may be accounted for in the same manner.Tanach.
Jos. 17:11• 11Tuvo también Manasés en Issachâr y en Aser á Beth-san y sus aldeas, é Ibleam y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Dor y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Endor y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Taanach y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Megiddo y sus aldeas: tres provincias. (Jos. 17:11)
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Jue. 5:19• 19Vinieron reyes y pelearon: Entonces pelearon los reyes de Canaán En Taanac, junto á las aguas de Megiddo, Mas no llevaron ganancia alguna de dinero. (Jue. 5:19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and out of half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its suburbs and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: two cities.